Understanding and cooperation among alter and host personalities.

Abstract

There is little occupational therapy literature that addresses the profession's efficacy in the treatment of persons with multiple personality disorder, yet the characteristics and complexity of this disorder render it one that can gain much from occupational therapy intervention. This paper examines the ways in which the occupational therapist can help in the treatment of patients with multiple personality disorder by introducing the alter personalities to each other, encouraging rapport among the personalities, and providing tasks that allow the alter personalities and the host to work together for mutual benefit.

• Authors: P L Dawson
• Journal: The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (Am J Occup Ther) Vol. 44 Issue 11 Pg. 994-7 (Nov 1990) ISSN: 0272-9490 [Print] United States
• PMID: 2252073 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Dissociative Identity Disorder (rehabilitation)
• Humans
• Occupational Therapy (methods)